The Classics Spin #17!

It’s easy. At your blog, before next Friday, March 9th, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.

This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the year (details to follow). Try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, re-reads, ancients — whatever you choose.)

On Friday, March 9th, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by April 30, 2018. We’ll check in here in May to see who made it the whole way and finished their spin book!

Do you have that?

Go to your blog.

Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.

Try to challenge yourself: list five you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, re-reads, ancients — whatever you choose.)

Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Friday, March 9th.

That morning (3/9), we’ll announce a number from 1-20. Go to the list of twenty books you posted, and select the book that corresponds to the number we announce.

The challenge is to read that book by April 30, even if it’s an icky one you dread! (No fair not listing any scary ones!)

As usual, this is all for fun and, of course, the “rules” are, as always, very relaxed. Really, you can make up your own rules. We don’t actually care. Just play along with us and read a classic!

So, today (or any time this week) at your blog, you might post something like:

My Book Spin List for the Classics Club –

Jane Eyre

Pride and Prejudice

Crime and Punishment

Oliver Twist

Clarissa

Gone With the Wind

Ulysses

Emerson’s Collected Essays

Richard III

The Iliad

Jude the Obscure

Leaves of Grass

The Monk

Dracula

The Importance of Being Earnest

Sense & Sensibility

The Tempest

The Diary of Anne Frank

Paradise Lost

Pilgrim’s Progress

(Obviously, YOU choose what books you want to list, in what order.)

Next Friday, we will announce a number from 1 through 20. When we announce it, go to your Spin list. Find that number, and read the book listed for that number by April 30.

So, if (for example) we announce #2 — if the above list was your Spin List, you’d have to read Pride and Prejudice by April 30.

Make sense? As always, the prize is the reading experience. When we announce the number next Friday, come back and tell us your spin title — weeee! Anybody in? If so, you can link to your spin lists below.

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Prefer to read quietly?

The activities on this site are intended to contribute to the reading journey of those who seek a bit of connection with the group. None of these extra activities are intended to curb your reading joy. If you prefer to work on your list quietly and save any remarks for your personal book post, that’s respected and encouraged, too. This extra stuff is because some people like book mingling.